My older brother told me this story, while we were privately reminiscing at my father's wake. I tell the story as he told it to me, from his point of view. I remembered some of the casual events of the time, but especially the Girl from U.N.C.L.E..
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He had quit watching the show with me, I fancied myself to be a secret agent when I grew up, to go and watch the show with the new neighbor.
The truth made the hurt, I had nursed all those years, go away. How could I blame him for choosing hot sex?
A family had moved in next door to my family at the start of the summer vacation. They had two boys a mom and a dad, which in 1967 was a most traditional family. Our family was 6 boys and a girl and a mom and a dad. Typical for Irish Catholics.
The older boy next door was a sophomore at Ohio State and the younger was 6 months older than me. My parents encouraged me to make friends with the new neighbor, because he was a heavy set boy that was quite bookish and may need to have help in getting set in the neighborhood.
I would go over, during the summertime days, and we would play board games and card games or pitch jarts in the front yard. In the evening David's parents would go to play bingo, at the church three doors down, on Thursday night.
That was also the night the Girl From U.N.C.L.E. was on and I had learned about orgasms recently, while carefully washing myself in the tub. I was happy to make my parents happier by going over to watch a color television of the sexiest show on the networks.
David and I sat side by side on the sofa and watched the show. He would always wait until the commercials to ask me about what I liked best about the show and encouraged me to fantasy about what I, an 18 year old, would do with the "Girl's" tits.
I wasted no time in describing how I would suckle her sweet boobs and lick and nibble her nipples. All the while, I had no idea what the treasure under her turtleneck sweater may look or feel like and had only recently found my oldest brother's Playboy stash to help my bathroom fantasy.
One night, after his mom and dad had left for the church and we were settling down to watch the show, David sat very close to me. I was not the least surprised to find a stirring in my pants when he seemed to be squirming his hip into mine for a cozier seat.
He became very bold, at the first commercial break, and placed his hand on my thigh. I gently lifted David's hand and placed it back in his lap, noticing the bulge that was forming in his lap under his tummy. We repeated this mating dance a few times, while I allowed his hand to linger a little longer each time before removal and replacement. The commercial ended, he was a perfect gentleman, until the next commercial break.